David Kean and his associate Markus Resch have invented new Mellotrons : Mark VI and Mark VII. They also released new improved tape frames which also fit in...
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egrefin.free.fr/eng/mellotron/mellinks.php
egrefin.free.fr/eng/mellotron/mellinks.php
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A collection of Mellotron resources The Mellotron is an electronic musical instrument invented around 1960 to provide the sounds of violins, cellos, flutes, choirs, horns, pretty much anything, from a keyboard. Given the technology of the day, the reasonable way to do this was with strips of magnetic tape.
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www.till.com/articles/Mellotron/
www.till.com/articles/Mellotron/
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Feb 11, 2009 Harry Chamberlin, the man who invented it was really into .... them sound so unnatural is exactly what made the Mellotron sound so unique.
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www.boingboing.net/2009/02/11/mellodrama-the-mello.html
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Harry Chamberlin, the man who invented it was really into playing the even though there were only about 500 Chamberlins, and 2000 Mellotrons made.
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www.rhizome.org/editorial/2344
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THE MANIC ADVENTURES OF THE MOOG AND THE MELLOTRON (PART 1); In the present-day Invented in 1962 by Bill Fransen, it received a electronic face-lift in 1964 known as the Mark 2. Although the instrument was monophonic, it became a very popular instrument during the progressive rock explosion of the early seventies.
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www.sarockdigest.com/archives/issue_125.html
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The Mellotron Story All Mellotrons are based on the principal invented by Harry Chamberlin, where each key simply sets a length of tape in motion, playing back whatever was recordedon the tape. They were thus the predecessors of sample playback machines.
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www.vemia.co.uk/mellotron/
www.vemia.co.uk/mellotron/
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Encyclopedia: Mellotron
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The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. The Mellotron supervenes the Chamberlin, which was the world's fir...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron
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Mellotrons were invented by Harry Chamberlin of the US. Two Chamberlins were flown over to the UK and disassembled to serve as the basis of the Mellotron
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www.kleonard.com/mellotron/mellotronia/mellomyths.htm
www.kleonard.com/mellotron/mellotronia/mellomyths.htm
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This is my interpretation of the Mellotron, a classic instrument invented in the 1960s. It was one of the first sample players, and was used by The Beatles, and countless psychedelic and prog bands. The Mellotron played strips of tape to emulate flutes, strings, choirs, orchestras, etc.
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mysterycircuits.com/melloman/melloman.html
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